pyinstaller

With this container you can run pyinstaller over your projects. It uses the oldest possible debian version (ie. docker tag) so that the resulting binaries are compatible with a wider range of linux OSes.

Usage example

docker run -it --rm \
  -v "$PWD:/app" \
  -e "DEPS=libsasl2-dev libssl-dev libldap2-dev" \
  -e REQUIREMENTS_FILE=requirements.txt \
  pschmitt/pyinstaller:3.7 \
    --hidden-import=pkg_resources.py2_warn \
    app.py

Configuration

There’s a few ENV vars you can set:

• REQUIREMENTS_FILE: Path to a requirements.txt file which is to installed
  before running pyinstaller.
• UPDATE_PIP: Set to any value to make the entrypoint script update pip,
  setuptools and wheel before installing the dependencies defined in
  requirements.txt or pyproject.toml
• SKIP_PIP_INSTALL_PROJECT: Set to any value to disable installing the project
  via pip install . which may be undesirable if you want a requirements.txt
  file to take precendence for example.

Static binaries

WARNING: This is currently only “supported” on amd64.

To run staticx on the binary produced by pyinstaller you need can make use the STATICX_* environment variables:

• STATICX: Enable staticx. Set to any value. Unset by default.
• STATICX_ARGS: Set staticx’s arguments. Eg: --strip. Unset by default.
• STATICX_TARGET: Set the name of the binary in the dist/ directory which we should run staticx against. Default to the first file in dist/.
• STATICX_OUTPUT: Name of the resulting binary. Defaults to ${STATICX_TARGET}_static.